year twenty twenty　SHINODA Taro

Oct. 17, 2020 - Nov. 15, 2020

Main Sight：Exhibition

SHINODA Taro "year twenty twenty", Saitama Triennale 2020 / Photo: MARUO Ryuichi

The works of SHINODA Taro, an artist who has continued to deeply question the relationship between humans and nature, encompass a diverse range of media including installations utilizing various materials and site-specific projects. “year twenty twenty” was conceived as a response to the ground floor of the Former Omiya Ward Office, South Building, which serves as the venue. This was the floor on which the Welfare, Senior Citizen’s Welfare, Support, and Child Welfare Divisions were located. As reflected in Shinoda’s comment that “the site already suggested the problem...,” the venue can be thought of as a place symbolizing various challenges Japan is facing today. After blazing through a period of rapid growth following the post-war reconstruction and the bubble era, the economy has stagnated, the birthrate is in decline and a super-aging society is approaching. Amidst a constantly changing situation, exemplified by an increasingly overpopulated Tokyo, widening economic disparity, global warming and extreme weather events, and frequent natural disasters, can we achieve a creative revolution and reverse the negative spiral in which we find ourselves?
The transformation of the former ward office building interior into a sea of sand as sand ceaselessly falls from the ceiling is a vision that appears to foresee decades or hundreds of years into the future, but while the desert evokes an image of death, it may also secretly imply the eventual resurrection of life thereafter.

Date and Time

Closed on Saturday, October 17, 2020-Sunday, November 15, 2020

12: 00-18: 00 (Last entry 17:00)

Venue

Former Omiya ward office 1F

3-1 Daimoncho,Omiya-ku,Saitama City

* 5 minutes walk from the East Exit of Omiya station.